This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
A winter's carol
First song of the robin
A winter's carol
I go through the land
And I can hear it
Ringing out
Ringing out
From pine to oak
Bringing out with the December snow
Ringing out
A gift to old
Wrapped in ribbons of gold
For the whole world
For the whole world
The summer queen
Has been in darkness
The summer queen
Has been in darkness
The summer queen
Surrenders to this
To him she reveals
The secrets
To him she reveals
The Wine Ham secrets
For a time
For a time rejoice
Fire and frost in marriage
Through a midwinter clearing
A forest greets the snowy evening
Year after year, the holly king
Passes the torch as it was intended
Through a midwinter clearing
A final kiss and a new beginning
Kiss on the queen wearing his wreath
Soon with the sun she will be ascending
Through a midwinter clearing
The forest greets a snowy evening
With wands of yew, the holly king
Passes the torch as it was intended
Passes the torch as it was intended
A winter's carol
The song of the robin
The sun is reborn
From the starry heavens
A winter's carol
Echoes the sound of wonder
And I can hear it
Ringing out
Ringing out,
From pine to oak
Bringing out, with the December snow
Ringing out
A gift of old
Wrapped in ribbons of gold
For the whole world
For the whole world
For the whole world
Ringing out,
Winter's carol
Ringing out,
Winter's carol
Ringing out,
Winter's.
First song of the robin
A winter's carol
I go through the land
And I can hear it
Ringing out
Ringing out
From pine to oak
Bringing out with the December snow
Ringing out
A gift to old
Wrapped in ribbons of gold
For the whole world
For the whole world
The summer queen
Has been in darkness
The summer queen
Has been in darkness
The summer queen
Surrenders to this
To him she reveals
The secrets
To him she reveals
The Wine Ham secrets
For a time
For a time rejoice
Fire and frost in marriage
Through a midwinter clearing
A forest greets the snowy evening
Year after year, the holly king
Passes the torch as it was intended
Through a midwinter clearing
A final kiss and a new beginning
Kiss on the queen wearing his wreath
Soon with the sun she will be ascending
Through a midwinter clearing
The forest greets a snowy evening
With wands of yew, the holly king
Passes the torch as it was intended
Passes the torch as it was intended
A winter's carol
The song of the robin
The sun is reborn
From the starry heavens
A winter's carol
Echoes the sound of wonder
And I can hear it
Ringing out
Ringing out,
From pine to oak
Bringing out, with the December snow
Ringing out
A gift of old
Wrapped in ribbons of gold
For the whole world
For the whole world
For the whole world
Ringing out,
Winter's carol
Ringing out,
Winter's carol
Ringing out,
Winter's.
Lyrics submitted by stentorian
Winter's Carol Lyrics as written by Tori Ellen Amos
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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The song with a mysterious world... Beautiful.